Device for cutting metallic wagon-axles



(No Model.)

W. B. CARPENTER.

DEVICE FOR' CUTTING MBTALLIG WAGON AXLBS. N0. 268,780.

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WARD E. CARPENTER, 0E wEsT ToPsHAM, VERMONT.

DEVICE FOR CUTTING METALLIC WAGON-AXLES.

SPECIFICATIO forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,780, dated December12, 1882.

Application filed August i, 1982. (No model.) u

To all whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, WARD B. CARPENTER, of Westlopsham, in thecounty ofOrange and btateof Vermont, have invented a. new and Improved Device.for Guttingand Screw-Threading Metallic Wagon-Axles, of which thefollowing is a specification.

Thisinvention relates to improvements in the construction and operationot' a tool for shortening axle-spindles, to compensate fort-he wearingof the boxes.

The object of my invention is to make a cheap and simple tool to beemployed upon any sized spindle.

In the accompanying drawings, which are referred to and made a part ofthis specification, Figure l is a view of the side of the wheel plate orstock containing the cutters; Fig. 2, the side of the wheel-plate,showing the holders; Fig. 3, a sectional View; and F1g.4 shows one ofthe cutters.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

A A represent cutters attached to a wheelplate by stays B B, andadjusted to the Work by set-screws G U.

D D represent the handles of the Wheel-plate, of any desired length,which handles also serve as set-screws to adjust the holders E E to thedifferent diameters of axles by passing through the ends of frame andbearing against. the sliding holders E E, as shown in Fig. 2.

adapted to operate upon any axle up to the size ofthe hole in thewheel-plate.

The cutters AA are held against the shoulder of the spindle by a nut onthe end of the spindie crowding against the cutters and by theset-screws U C bearing against the end of cutters A A.

When my invention is properly adjusted to the spindle, revolve thewheel-plate, and the friction between vthe sides of the cutters and thenut will feed until the proper amount of metal is rapidly cut away.`When the spindle has been sufficiently shortened the holders E E areremoved from the wheel-plate and the ordinary screw-cuttingdevicesinserted in their place, when theWheel-plate is again applied tothel spindle and the screwfthread is cut in the ordinary manner upon theend of the spindle.v

Having fully described my invention, what I desire to claim andsecure'by Letters Patent 1s- V'lhe improved tool herein described forcut- W. B.. CARPENTER.

Witnesses:

0. L. WATSON, W. B. BAYLEY.

